Millennium director

What kind of price did Disney offer John to make him willing to stay with tens of millions in dividends?

To be honest, Wu Yuan really couldn't guess, and he didn't want to get to the bottom of it.

John is indeed not too old, he is not even fifty this year. Wu Yuan's retirement was just a joke.

If you are someone who has no pursuits, you can really stop working and enjoy life with tens of millions.

But John is not a person without pursuit.

He really loves his job as a producer. Although he keeps complaining about Wu Yuan being the hands-off shopkeeper, he is never vague about his work and still enjoys it.

It's probably not that easy to ask him to put down all his work now.

In addition, the treatment provided by Disney is probably not low, which makes John's heart move.

Not intending to explore too much in this area, Wu Yuan said directly: "John, you can make your own decision, there is no need to ask me."

"Whatever decision you make, I support it."

"Okay." John nodded heavily and exhaled slowly.

Needless to say, he was quite worried that Wu Yuan would mind. After all, he was standing in the same trench as Wu Yuan. Now that Wu Yuan had sold the company, he wanted to stay, and there was a little bit of "parting ways" or even It means "to turn against one another".

Fortunately, Wu Yuan didn't think so at all.

"That's it for now. I'm a little tired from negotiating today. I'm going home to rest."

"Starting tomorrow, I will join the post-production of "The Martian" and strive to complete the post-production of this movie as soon as possible."

"Hopefully, it will be scheduled before the end of the year."

After saying goodbye to John, Wu Yuan went directly back to his villa in Los Angeles.

He really wanted to rest, but it didn't last long.

After taking a short nap, whether it was jet lag or catching up on a nap, Wu Yuan returned to the study at around four o'clock in the afternoon, opened his laptop, and started working.

With the "end" of his career in North America, Wu Yuan had to return more of his focus to China.

Oh, I'm not talking about his company's business, but his personal development direction.

That is his next film shooting plan.

In recent years, the domestic film market has really improved.

Especially starting from this year and next, after the box office of "囧" and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" successively exceeded 1 billion yuan, the mainland's film market has also reached the billion level.

In 2013, the total box office of mainland movies exceeded 20 billion, and this is just the beginning.

There is no doubt that such a prosperous and rising film market can already allow Wu Yuan, an "international giant", to enter the market.

In the past nearly ten years, Wu Yuan has made many movies in China, but if we really want to count them down, only one "Gravity" can be considered a blockbuster.

And in fact, if "Gravity" is released in Hollywood, it cannot be regarded as an S-level blockbuster. It can only be regarded as entry-level at most, and it is not as serious as "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Lord of the Rings", "Avatar" and "Star Wars". blockbusters are still incomparable.

It's not that Wu Yuan doesn't want to make such a blockbuster, but the Chinese film market cannot accommodate such a blockbuster.

Before this, most of the so-called Chinese-language blockbusters in China were historical themes + Hong Kong and Taiwan superstars. This combination was considered a Chinese-language blockbuster.

And Chinese historical-themed films, with their unique oriental classical aesthetics, indeed once occupied a place in the world.

It's a pity that the emergence of such Chinese-language blockbusters can only be regarded as short-lived.

Chinese historical blockbusters are too difficult for foreigners to understand. Even though Zhang Yimou and the directors from Hong Kong have tried their best to simplify the story and the background, except for Japan, which itself has a very good understanding of Chinese history. Outside of the country, most foreign audiences just watch the fun.

After watching one or two movies, you may be interested in the gorgeous Chinese classical costumes and aesthetics in the movie, but after watching a few more movies, you will quickly lose interest.

In the past two years, the number of so-called costume blockbusters in the mainland has become less and less.

Instead, there are more and more so-called "Chinese fantasy movies", starting from the earliest "Painted Skin" by Wu Yuan, to "Along with the Gods" which completely opened up Chinese magic and fantasy movies. In recent years, movies like "Painted Wall" "The Legend of White Snake", "Journey to the West", "Eight Immortals" and other classic IPs of Chinese heroes and demons have all been put on the big screen.

Under the gimmick of 3D special effects, many movies have indeed achieved good box office results.

Not to mention that during the Spring Festival, there will be a "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" that will completely detonate the theme of Chinese fantasy and magic movies.

If Wu Yuan wants to follow this trend for his next Chinese-language film, it will definitely be the most suitable subject to choose, and it can make a real blockbuster!

After all, he himself can be considered a pioneer in Chinese-language fantasy films, and "Painted Skin 1" was the box office champion of the year.

However, after Wu Yuan thought about it carefully, he gave up this seemingly optimal choice.

He really doesn’t want to make fantasy or magic-style movies, and he doesn’t have any obsession with “blockbusters.” He won’t make movies unless they are blockbusters.

From "Pirates of the Caribbean" to "Painted Skin" later, half of the "blockbusters" he made were fantasy movies, and the remaining half were science fiction movies.

These two subjects are no longer challenging for him.

If you want to be safe, then it is absolutely safe for him to make "The Legend of Monster". Although the box office of this movie is a little watery, it is indeed a movie that is in line with the trend of the times, and it is the first movie in the Magic Five in Mainland China from 2014 to 2017. A masterpiece of the year.

But as a director who has achieved great success in both box office and awards fields, Wu Yuan still has some personal pursuits.

He did have some resistance to this kind of purely commercial film, a film made simply to attract box office.

He would rather make some movies that are both commercial and connotative, and more meaningful, not the kind of popcorn movies that you just laugh about after watching.

For example, "Dangal!" Movies like "Dad" and "I'm Not the God of Medicine".

Sitting in front of the computer, facing a blank screen, Wu Yuan was thinking about which movie to choose as the next shooting plan.

"Wrestle!" "Daddy" is very good, with high intentions and inspirational, but this is an Indian film, itself adapted from the story of a legendary boxer in India.

Later, Wang Baoqiang also learned this routine and filmed "The Octagon", which was adapted from a true story in China.

If you want to film this "Dangal!" "Dad", how to solve the problem of the source of the story is quite troublesome, and he has to go to India.

The movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is indeed good, but the prototype in the story, Lu Yong, was only indicted by the court in 2014, and the case was only completed in 2015.

It would be too early for him to make this movie now.

After thinking for a while, he tapped the keyboard.

On the blank document on the screen, a line of title appeared:

""Dear - Orphaned"" (End of this chapter)